Most of you
guys have really taken the UAS immigration well. I feel like whenever I bring up the troubles
that have existed, it makes it sound like Haven is full of prejudiced
people. It’s really not and you guys
know that.
But there
are some incorrigibles. They keep acting
out, starting fights, harassing people, and they keep getting punished. The Council has put these guys on half
rations, they’ve given them extra work details, they’ve confined them to their
homes when not working. Nothing has
seemed to work. Among the most frequent
offenders, you’ve got Jeremy here in Haven and K-Pap on the side of the
UAS. Actually, I refuse to call this
grown adult K-Pap. I have no idea what
the K stands for or what Pap means, so I’m just going to assume it’s short for
Kingsley Pappington. Dude’s name is
Kingsley Pappington from now on.
So you no
doubt know both these gentlemen. Jeremy
did the same thing every time. He gets
drunk and wanders into the UAS area at night and starts screaming at them to go
home. During the day, he follows UAS
workers around, yelling at them to go home and trying to trip them. Even when he’s not intoxicated, he’s a
generally unpleasant person and has been involved in, by my count, three
different physical altercations and an infinite number of verbal
altercations. Kingsley, on the other
hand, is still militantly pro-UAS and is always loudly talking about how his
soldier brothers will be rolling in any day now to butcher us all. He talks about how Haven is a mere shadow of
the greatness that was his UAS hometown.
He keeps cornering Haven citizens and mocking the war, talking about how
he left Haven solders dead on the field to reanimate, and so on. He’s clearly just trying to get a reaction. Clearly he’s all talk because if he really
still wanted to be out fighting he would be.
And if his hometown was really that great, he’d leave. But he doesn’t. He’s all talk and everyone knows it. Yet he still finds people to fight with him.
These two
jewels of the human race have been the freaking joy of my life. I really can’t even remember what my life was
ever like without them. Don’t get me
wrong, there are a few other clowns on both sides that can’t play nice, but
these two are the kings of them. The
Council has noticed their repeated punishments haven’t seen much effect. So I’ve suggested something new. Behavioral therapy.
Behavioral
alteration was always pretty controversial.
You had drug and alcohol rehabs that would make use of it decades ago
when this kind of intervention was really in vogue. It,
frankly, looked quite a lot like bullying.
In a nutshell, the idea is to alter a person’s behavior by specifically
targeting and punishing that behavior whenever it occurs. There’s a bit more to it than that, but that’s
the basic gist. Now behavioral therapy
can be used effectively at times. Take
boot camp for example. Lots of
behavioral techniques there to alter people’s behaviors and methods of thinking. Still, behavioral therapy could get pretty
harsh. Eventually, in the case of the
rehabs, people decided that maybe the best way to treat addiction wasn’t to
make addicts wear diapers or dunce caps just because they’re acting like babies. But things have changed. We live in a new world now. A harsher world. It occurred to me that perhaps revisiting
behavioral modification wasn’t a bad idea.
Ok, look,
there’s some commotion going on outside.
I keep hearing snatches of talk about the UAS. I’m going to cut this off here. I’ll get back to my undeniable therapy genius
later, after I figure out what’s going on.
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